Muslims in the UK could be left fasting for 19 hours a day, as the holy month of Ramadan coincides with the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere.

US scientists try to grow human organs inside pigs to solve the transplant shortage by injecting human stem cells into pig embryos.

Civilians fleeing Falluja, the Iraqi stronghold of the so-called Islamic State (IS), are being shot as they leave, an aid agency says.

Anxiety disorders need more research, says a global review of scientific studies which found women were twice as likely to be affected as men.

The first major trial to see whether losing weight reduces the risk of cancers coming back is about to start in the US and Canada.

Some of Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg's social media accounts appear to have fallen victim to hackers.

Veteran US photojournalist David Gilkey and his translator are killed in a Taliban ambush in southern Afghanistan.

At least three people are dead and nine injured after a train crash near the eastern Belgian town of Hermalle-sous-Huy, local officials say.